SANCTUARY CINEMA SERIES

Learn more about the changing world around us.

2019 Sanctuary Cinema Series

January 23 to 27 – 7:00PM

Every year, the sanctuary brings the world of ocean and Great Lakes cinema to Alpena!

February 21 – 7:00PM

Great Lakes Ghost Ship

For more than 100 years, it was assumed that the Cornelia B. Windiate was lost in Lake Michigan. But when she’s found, it’s in another lake altogether! There’s not a mark on her. No crew. No sign of what caused her to sink. Hosts and veteran divers, John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, dive to examine one of the world’s most pristine shipwrecks and help develop a new solution to one the strangest mysteries of the Great Lakes.

August 22 – 7:00PM

Lake Huron has been hit with numerous exotic species invasions over the last century. Biologists are racing to understand these changes and restore balance to the third largest lake in the world before the next invader arrives.

December 19 – 7:00PM

In November of 1912, the schooner Rouse Simmons left upper Michigan ferrying 5,000 Christmas trees to Chicago. The ship disappears, and for 60 years there’s no trace of it. In 1971 a scuba diver discover the legendary, lost “Christmas Tree Ship.”